Kravchenko I. Teachers' institutes in the system of teachers' training in Ukraine (second half of XIX - beginning XX century).

In this dissertation the organizational and pedagogical preconditions for establishment of teachers' institutes in Ukraine in the second half of XIX - beginning XX century have been identified. Their place and role in the system of pedagogical education of Ukraine, as secondary special educational institutions providing targeted training for teachers of primary schools of higher type (municipal schools and starting from 1912 - high primary schools), have been determined. The process of establishment and development of teachers' institutes in the said period as consequent and logical changes in their administrative and organizational structure, content of teachers' training, including vocational and pedagogical, impacted by socio-political, socio-economic, organizational and pedagogical transformations has been substantiated. Its periodization has been developed as the unity of four stages: 1862 - 1873, 1874 - 1904, 1905 - 1916, 1917 - 1920. Major trends and peculiarities of administrative and organizational structure, content of vocational training in teachers' institutes in 1872 - 1920 have been identified. The experience of their activities in the conditions of modernization of pedagogical education in Ukraine has been updated.